My work focuses on management of coastal areas, including mechanisms to increase institutional cooperation, capacity building, development of management plans, and reduction of conflicts between various resource users. Marine and coastal protected areas are an additional area of my work. I dedicate much of my effort to work in the Caribbean Basin and Latin America.

Suman, D. The Shrimp Industry in Eastern Panama (Darien Province): Unsustainable Harvest of a Valuable Export Product and its Limited Impact on Local Community Development. 2006. In Globalization and Sustainable Development: Issues and Applications. R.L. Harris (ed.), Patel Center for Global Solutions: University of South Florida, pp. 192-220.

Suman, D. 2005. Globalization and Development: Using the Coastal Area of the Darién Region of Panama as a Case Study. Occasional Papers on Globalization, Vol. 2, No. 5. Globalization Research Center, University of South Florida. Available from:www.cas.usf.edu/GlobalResearch/PDFs/Suman.pdf

Suman, D. O. 1997. Biomass Burning in North Africa and its Possible Relationship to Climate Change in the Mediterranean Basin. In The Impact of Desert Dust Across the Mediterranean, S. Guerzoni & R. Chester (eds.), pp. 113-122.